Plastics Business The annual Benchmarking and Best Practices Conference, sponsored by the Manufacturers Association of Plastics Processors, is a no-nonsense business exchange designed to provide profit-impacting information to senior executives in the plastics manufacturing industry. This year's conference will take place Oct. 16-17 at the JW Marriott in downtown Indianapolis, … [Read more...] about MAPP Benchmarking and Best Practices Conference
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Goal-Setting Tactics: You’ve Gotta Define Success Before You Can Design It
by Jack Daly Identify "where you are" – the baseline. You can't begin moving in the right direction until you knows where you are at the present. An effective analogy is to imagine wanting to travel coast to coast. If you didn't know which coast you were starting from, the journey could be a long and wet one as you started out with just a destination in mind. As well, knowing … [Read more...] about Goal-Setting Tactics: You’ve Gotta Define Success Before You Can Design It
Plastics Bonding Design Considerations for Processors
by Andrew Scott, Henkel Corporation Today's production world constantly is looking to streamline production and create more reliable assemblies with faster and easier methods. Adhesives successfully have been used to displace solvent welding in the plastics industry. The most common bonding applications using plastics range from delicate medical components to heavy industrial … [Read more...] about Plastics Bonding Design Considerations for Processors
Sales Management: Growing with an Eye on “Fit”
by Dianna Brodine, Plastics Business The lessons of the past decade still ring loudly for most manufacturers. Today's growth in sales and production volume has been welcomed, but a healthy dose of suspicion comes along with it. No one wants to return to the days when machines sat idle, but filling the pipeline with the wrong type of work isn't the answer either. As … [Read more...] about Sales Management: Growing with an Eye on “Fit”
Why Veterans are Ideal for Manufacturing Careers
by Rodrigo Garcia, Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs For those of you who've seen the classic film "The Graduate," you probably got a kick from the sage advice given to Dustin Hoffman's character at the start of the movie... "Son, I just want to say one word to you: plastics." As influential members of the plastics industry, I now want to say just one word to you: … [Read more...] about Why Veterans are Ideal for Manufacturing Careers